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Moreover, Felt said they are not after a big name coach. It is known that he visited such famous football masterminds as Bobby Dodd of Georgia Tech. Matty Bell of SMU, and Paul Bryant of Texas A and M, but these visits were apparently just to discuss coaching in general, and more particularly, to get a line on any young prospects the three men might suggest...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...
...HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOL. II, THE NEW WORLD, by Winston S. Churchill (433 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $6), rolls with Churchillian eloquence over those troubled years between the first great Tudors. including Bloody Mary (the last Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology...
...more than luck last week when Fullback Dickie Mattison came through in the clutch with a fourth-quarter touchdown. Even when the going was rough, the worst worrywarts in the stands watched their coach calmly chewing on a blade of grass, relaxed and remembered their mildly irreverent motto: "In Dodd we trust...
...Pocket. Opposing coaches insist that the one indispensable part of that system is Dodd's luck. "If an atom bomb went off in this room," said Georgia's Wallace Butts at a football banquet last winter, "Bobby Dodd would come up with a handful of uranium in his pocket...